Plus: 18 State AGs Raise Alarm About 'Dishonest and Divisive Track Record' of Biden Judicial Nominee
March 29 2023
Good morning from Washington, where one of President Biden’s nominees for a judgeship doesn’t cut it for 18 state attorneys general. Our Tyler O’Neil reports on why. In an on-camera interview, a former Capitol Police lieutenant calls for a wider investigation of leadership failures that he says aggravated the Capitol riot. On the podcast, meet another former cop who’s now protecting and serving in the Missouri Legislature. Plus: a GOP senator sees the Nashville school shooting as a hate crime; a House panel probes the effects of the pandemic’s lockdowns on children; and Biden’s homeland security chief tries to defend his performance. It’s Vietnam War Veterans Day: Fifty years ago today, the last U.S. combat troops leave South Vietnam as North Vietnam releases many remaining American prisoners of war.
“She has compared her fellow Americans to Jim Crow-era racists,” write state AGs, adding: “She has proclaimed that our criminal justice system is ‘practically the same system as during slavery.’”
“It is commonplace to call such horrors ‘senseless violence.’ But properly speaking, that is false. Police report that the attack here was ‘targeted’—targeted, that is, against Christians,” says the senator.
Since taking office in January, Justin Sparks has emerged as a leader on top conservative priorities such as reducing crime and fighting radical gender ideology.
“Since taking power, the [Chinese Communist Party’s] atheistic regime has engaged in systemic persecution of Christians and other religious minorities,” says The Heritage Foundation’s Michael Cunningham.
“Your behavior is disgraceful, and the deaths, the children assaulted, the children raped, they are at your feet,” Cruz tells Mayorkas. “If you had integrity, you would resign.”
